This page is about acknowledging the creators of the technology, images and components we used to build our site.
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- If this website, looks good or works in any meaningful way, it's almost entirely because of the hard work and generousity of people that support the open source and creative commons movements
- Thank you.
This is the part where we say a big, thank you, to all the good people that contribute to open-source projects and grant others permissive licences to reuse their work under, e.g, the creative commons.
Thank you
In typical Oscar ceremony style, we'd like to thank everyone... but if we did it individually, this page would be as much fun as a being stuck in a lift for 18 hours with a claustrophobic farmer, a sow, 9 piglets (all of which have upset stomachs), an increasingly hysterical group undergoing aversion therapy for swinophobia[1], a tone deaf oompah band whose biggest hit was a cover of Billy Ray Cyrus' Ache-y Break-y Heart[2] with a 12 minute accordion solo, a Scotsman who just happens to have bought his bagpipes and is intent on jammin' with the band, any 3 members of the cast of "Made in Chelsea" and Piers Morgan.
- The usual suspects: HTML5, PHP, JQuery, Ruby, Rake, and the odd bit of Bash[3].
- Firefox. Firebug. Chrome. Greasemonkey. Stylish. and the awesome Pushbullet.
- GetSimple and some natty plugins for it, including GS Blog and Custom Fields.
- Lots of JQuery plugins, including ColorBox, Cycle2, DetectMobile, Form Wizard, Kwicks, Lazy load, Qtip2 and Waypoints... to name but 8. If you look in the source, you can see there are lots more :)
- A bunch of freeware or OSS apps, including Taskpaper+, MarkdownPad 2, Cygwin, Codelobster.
- A shed load of web sites and resources, including Flickr, Wikimedia, and 500px
We don't sell, or otherwise make money from, any of the images on the website[4].
We've put them on here, because we think their brilliant or funny or interesting or profound or they are in some other way (at least, in our heads) tangentially connected to whatever we happen to be talking about at the time.
We think that this means it's fine for us to use, creative commons (or other similarly licensed) images marked for "non-commercial" use, even though we're a shop. The Creative Commons FAQ makes it clear that it is the specific use of the image itself, rather the type of entity that is using it, that determines whether or not a use is commercial. Simply put, a company may use NC images, as long as they don't make money from the way they use it. Furthermore, we think, that the mere inclusion of an image on a website (which is publicly available for viewing or download, without payment, elsewhere on the internet) is not, in itself, of independent economic significance; a factor of considerable, practical importance in English Law.
We believe in the Creative Commons movement, we believe in photography and the last thing we want to do is wind up photographers, who produce great work and make it available under CC licences.
Accordingly, if we've used your image and you don't like the way we've used it, just let us know. You can tell us what you want us to do, to fix it or not to use it and we'll respect that. After all, it's your image.
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Greta Garboby thefoxling
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Say Cheese!by dilutedmagnetics
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Barleyby Gianluca Cenacchi
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Computer Facilitiesby PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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fire portalby Umberto Gnocchi
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Odd Catby Berkhamsted Imaging
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Old Photo of Racingby kitty.green66
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Run Until You Flyby Pink Sherbet
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View the World with Eyes Wide Openby Purple Sherbet
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Zara Jayby Zara-Jay
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatteby Georges Seurat
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i23by bournstar69
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http://nachocasado.tumblr.com/by Nach Photo
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Premise Fallby Guillaume Rouger
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Sunset Talkingby ventanium
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21.09.2012 - Dodgeby Jlhopgood
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British Bank Notesby Petr Kratochvil
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Cash Registerby Jos Ignacio Croce Busquets
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CCTV, London 2008by stephenjjohnson
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Deserted Carby Roadsidepictures
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Hedgehogby Abduleelah Al-manea
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Rabbit and Chairby rabbit portraits
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wonderland.02by Esranur Efeolu
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You are being videotapedby ChrisGoldNY
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England's Best Right Foot?by Berkhamsted Imaging
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Darn Wabbitby Berkhamsted Imaging
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Herbby Berkhamsted Imaging
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vadimzbanoks imageby vadimzbanok
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Crested Butte Bikingby Zach Dischner
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Fun Contrast and Lightby Pink Sherbet
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Expired Films & Backpacksby Margot Gabel
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Fuji Superiaby Berkhamsted Imaging
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Fun Cameraby Berkhamsted Imaging
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Color -concept-by Giovanni Cioli
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Daydreaming...by Nikki J. Gritti
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Earth Riseby NASA
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Joseph Pacome Peintre Maraisby lomalakamera
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Marine da nangby United States Marine Corps
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Sweet Pastelby Joanna Kustra
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Egyptian Pyramidsby kitty.green66
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Caught in the Rainby Daniel Stark
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Trikeby Florian Klauer
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Vote for Kinkyby Stuck in Customs
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Hello, Vienna Calling...by Thomas Nemcsek
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The little lionessby Vanessa Kay
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Big 5 - Elephantby TheLizardQueen
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Danger, Dangerby Berkhamsted Imaging
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My first Ektar100by Margot Gabel
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Elizabeth Taylorby thefoxling
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Color -concept-by Giovanni Cioli
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Disphorian Caseby Ana Lora Photoart
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Goldfishby Beiz
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Graphic Designby Berkhamsted Imaging
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Piano manby Ryan McGuire
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This Morning in the Mirrorby Oliver Weigel
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- Why else would there be pigs in an elevator?
- Yep, kids, whatever Miley does, she'll never be the most annoying one in her family.
- All bash is odd.
- Technically, we probably could... since many of them are either our own or free of a "non-commercial" restriction... but in practice we don't... and given that there are something like 300,000,000+ creative commons images on Flickr alone, you have to ask yourself how much is an uncommissioned, digital image worth these days, anyway? (After all, if you viewed 1 every second, 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and no new content was posted, it would take you about 28.5 years just to look at them all...)